Years ago I did a 30-minute radio program on Harrisburg’s WEBQ. Mostly I talked or read from Springhouse or interviewed someone, but at times the program featured songs, folk songs for the most part. Included was “Barbara Allen.” One day an elderly woman called and said hearing the old song on radio reminded her that long ago her mother-in-law would sing "Barbara Allen" over and over. This happened at Eagle Creek, probably in the 1920s.

It would seem, then, that the Scottish ballad mentioned in Samuel Pepys’ diary (1666) had arrived here with the settlers, along with axes and bibles.